Cedar Hill-Wylie football playoff liveblogging

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1:00 4Q - Game really over. Wylie picks up a first down after the missed field goal. Wylie at their 34, first down, Longhorns with just one TO left.

2:55 - GAME EFFECTIVELY OVER. CH couldn't score a TD on three plays inside the 10. Coach McGuire opted to try a FG on fourth down and Camara was wide right from 26.

4:00 4Q - CH driving inside Wylie 25; converted two 4th down plays already. But, they have just one time out left.

7:55 4Q - Longhorns down two scores for the first time since Plano West, and as I said earlier, Wylie is NOT PW. Monk hits Knott on a flare pass; his second effort makes it 31-21.

11:10 4Q - CH cannot convert the turnover and fails on 4th/8 at Wylie 38.

0:04 3Q - Second big play. Elijah Olabode for CH forces a fumble when tackling Colby Harper. A momentum swing in a strongly defensive second half.

3:00 3Q - Wylie capitalizes on the turnover with a 28-yard Zac Ohannessian FG. Their first lead of the game at 24-21.
Also, we're getting several dead-ball personal-foul penalities, as the game is getting playoff-intense.

4:14 3Q - First big play. A Longhorn snap hits Le'Derian Cockrane in motion and Wylie recovers at the CH 31.

HALFTIME - We're at 21-all. For Cedar Hill, Jackson has turned in an even better passing game, overall, than he did last week.

Some halftime stats for you. Both QBs are over 100 yards passing. CH is at 295 total offense and Wylie has 235. First downs favor Cedar Hill by a 2-1 margin; the Longhorns have much better time of possession.

1:40 2Q - OK, Monk can throw the ball, and Cedar Hill is still vulnerable in the secondary to play action. Monk hits Colby Jackson on a 51-yarder catch-and-run fly pattern and we're tied again, at 21.

3:39 2Q - Cedar Hill back up with Jackson 6-yard run. 21-14.

5:32 2Q - Wylie goes 3/out. Not "seeing it" today, so far, with Monk as a passer for Wylie.

6:21 2Q - Longhorns go for it 4th/2 at Wylie 10 and fail. CH Coach McGuire jaws at refs, probably risking a flag.

9:47 2Q - Nick Knott knots the game at 14 with his second big-play run, this one 39 yards.

END OF 1Q - Cedar Hill 14-7 with Wylie at the CH 39, 3rd/12.

1:00 1Q - And, that was a short-lived tie. With two big runs by Jackson and Ben Malena, capped by Malena's 2-yard run, the Horns are back on top, 14-7.

2:14 1Q - A short-lived Cedar Hill lead, as Nick Knott puts Wylie on the board with an 80-yard run on the first play from scrimmage.

2:34 1Q - Horns on the board first. Driphus Jackson hits Darrius Smith with a 23-yard TD pass on a fade route to the front right corner of the end zone.

12:00 1Q - Wylie starts the game with a successful OS kick, then has a Jerod Monk 44 TD run wiped out on penalty. Wylie eventually turns ball over on downs. Bad call to roll Monk left to pass on the 4th-down play from where I sit.

We're here at Texas Stadium for the mouthful-phrased Class 5A Division II Region 1 championship, in what figures to be Cedar Hill's toughest playoff test.

To get to this point, the Longhorns first defeated an outmatched Plano West team that still could have won with some better coaching decisions, then bested the weakest Southlake Carroll team in a decade after SLC upset Colleyville Heritage, followed by holding off a tough Mansfield team last week.

None of these teams, though (including SLC) had the passing game of Wylie, which has an almost 50-5 balance in passing and rushing yardage. How well Cedar Hill can defend the pass will be a key to this game.

Wylie quarterback Jerod Monk is a legitimate double threat, and, big and hard to take down. On defense, Cedar Hill Longhorn coach Joey McGuire says Pirate nose guard Nikita Whitlock can really clog the middle on run defense.

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